Achmed Abdullah

Name: Framed at the Benefactors Club — IV. In His Pocket
Author: Achmed Abdullah

Framed at the Benefactors Club… (1913)

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“Framed at the Benefactors Club — IV. In His Pocket”, published in 1913, is a work by Achmed Abdullah. It explores elements such as Ogilvie, police commissioner and police.

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Achmed Abdullah, Framed at the Benefactors Club… (1913)

“ Of fine old New York stock and immense wealth, and with a slightly provincial civic pride which had its roots in the days when New York was New Amsterdam, when people imported their liquor from Holland, when wild turkeys flopped their drab wings between Broadway and the Bronx, and when the Gadsby's had their country estate in the eventual neighborhood of Sixth Avenue and Twenty-ninth Street, he had gone in for local politics on leaving college as a simple matter of duty, because, as he put it, he was an American, a New Yorker, and a rich man. ”

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Achmed Abdullah, Framed at the Benefactors Club… (1913)

“ Ogilvie poured himself another drink and tossed it down neat.
“Bob,” he continued, “you're up against something brand-new. You will have to let me go—a man accused of murder, guilty by every last particle of direct evidence. You'll have to let the accused go, so that he can play detective and find the real murderer.” ”

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Achmed Abdullah, Framed at the Benefactors Club… (1913)

“ Montress D. Clapperton, the president of the Benefactors Club, who—the hunchback, came Ogilvie's silent comment—had run out, a few minutes before the stranger's get-away, to fetch the police. Several of the club members had received minor injuries. Mr. Cornelius van Alstyne had been hit by a chair; Mr. Leopold Fischer had a black eye, besides having his clothes torn; while Captain Jeremiah Blount, Mr. Holister Welkin, and Mr, Audley R. Chester—addresses given in each case—had been wounded by a carving knife which the assassin had picked up. ”

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Achmed Abdullah, Framed at the Benefactors Club… (1913)

“ Tompkins has known me since I was a kid in knickers—he worked for your father, didn't he?—sort of inherited him, British accent and 'yes, sir,' and 'thank you, sir,' and all. I've already slipped him a word of warning—all you'll have to do is to swear him to secrecy. ”

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Achmed Abdullah, Framed at the Benefactors Club… (1913)

“ Ogilvie lit a cigar while the police commissioner collapsed weakly into a chair.
{ [dhr] } Robert W. Gadsby was that curiously paradoxical and curiously effective combination: a materialistic idealist. He was both a doer and a dreamer; both a politician and an honest man; both a reformer and a sane man who saw people and conditions as they were, without the lying help of rosy-tinted, psychic spectacles. ”

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Achmed Abdullah, Framed at the Benefactors Club… (1913)

“ The opposition papers will make it hot for you. They'll discover that you and I are friends. They'll influence public opinion. They'll force your hand. They'll make the district attorney try me and convict me in record time. And, if your detectives should find the real murderer—why, by that time I'll be buried in a prison cemetery. Bob, you'll have to forget your sworn duty for once.”
Ogilvie turned and walked to the end of the room. Gadsby sat down, and his troubled face betrayed his preoccupation. ”

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Achmed Abdullah, Framed at the Benefactors Club… (1913)

“ Stranger Kills Well-known Philanthropist Guest at Benefactors Club.
Assassin Makes His Get-away.
“Assassin will have another cup of the police commissioner's excellent coffee,” said Blaine Ogilvie, and suited the action to his words,
The newspaper account related that No. ”

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